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Sony’s Morbius trailer connects it to the MCU
…into theaters this summer. One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. Dangerously… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy Ted Lasso and historic Oscar Best Picture winner CODA. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse is currently streaming on Apple TV+. The… |
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\\Mary Poppins\\ musical to debut December 2004
…8 week out-of-town run starting in in September, and then open on London’s West End on December 15, 2004, at the Prince Edward Theater. The Oscar winning music of the… |
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Taking animation seriously
Contactmusic and the AP say it’s time to take the animation category at the oscar seriously. Brave director Mark Andrews says, “I think this year with these films — and… |
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Happy Feet tops DVD sales chart for third week
For the third consecutive week, Happy Feet remained at the top of the DVD sales chart, notes Nielsen VideoScan First Alert via The Hollywood Reporter. The Oscar-winning animated flick was… |
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Wallace & Gromit follow-up in development
…production as soon as he [creator Nick Park] has finished writing it.” The plasticine pair was last seen in Oscar-winning 2005 flick Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit…. |
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Lasseter, Catmull reveal Disney, Pixar plans
…revealed that Toy Story 2 co-director Lee Unkrich is helming Toy Story 3, using a screenplay from Michael Arndt, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine. Tom Hanks and Tim… |
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Sunday a big night for awards
Five major groups will be handing awards out tonight – the British Academy of Film and Television Arts giving their equivalent of the Oscar, the Grammy Awards for music, the… |
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EXCLUSIVE! Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
Completing a trilogy of interviews with some of this year’s Best Animated Short Oscar nominees, including winner Torill Kove (The Danish Poet) and Chris Renaud (No Time for Nuts), Animated… |
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Horton Hears a Who!
…on Seuss stories were made – one of which won an Oscar. One of the most loved holiday television specials of all time came from the good doctor. There are… |
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The Animated Seuss
…critics and intellectuals; but they were also very entertaining. Still, Gerald McBoing Boing stood out from the rest of their output, winning an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. It… |
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Hair High winds up
Bill Plympton’s independent animated feature film Hair High is ending its Oscar-qualifying run today, Thursday, April 19 at Laemmle’s Sunset in West Hollywood so L.A. residents have only one day… |
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Iron Man to fight with Light & Magic
Superhero Hype! indicates that Industrial Light & Magic has been named as the principle visual effects house for Iron Man. Visual Effects Supervisor Ben Snow and Oscar-winning Animation Supervisor Hal… |
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Eloise in Hollywood in Dallas
…Starz Media company, in association with Handmade Films, Eloise features the star-studded voice talent of two-time Oscar©-nominee Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Matthew Lillard, Curtis Armstrong, and young actress Mary Matilyn… |
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"March of the Bunnies"
Starz presents the latest entry in the 30-Second Bunnies Theatre from Angry Alien Productions. This time around, the series takes aim at the Oscar-winning 2005 documentary March of the Penguins…. |
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Imageworks announces Imagemotion films
…two of the films: Neanderthals and an untitled feature from the Oscar-nominated Jerome Chen, who served as the visual effects supervisor on The Polar Express and Beowulf. As for the… |
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Ratatouille cooks up DVD and Blu-Ray disc editions
…how master chef and restaurateur Thomas Keller brought his real life expertise to the table. • Lifted – In Pixar’s latest short, Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Short Film, a teen… |
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The Pixar Story
…candid interviews, and visually stunning art and animation, Oscar ® nominated director Leslie Iwerks takes us inside the unique world of Pixar… “ a celebration of animation in all its… |
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Osborne joins Justice League
According to Obsessed With Film, Oscar-winner Barrie M. Osborne (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix) is teaming with Doug Mitchell to produce the upcoming Justice League movie for… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…Cruella, meant the project would have both widespread appeal and a multiple Oscar-nominated actress on board, hopefully inviting positive criticism (a “serious” actress was always the goal: the role was… |
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35th ANNIE AWARDS: Call for Entries
…Feature. Since its inception, the winner of the most coveted and high profile Best Animated Feature Annie has gone on to claim the Oscar for animation every year, except in… |
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Academy to screen short nominees
On February 20 the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening all 10 nominated live action and animated shorts up for an Oscar this year. Check out… |
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Eloise: Little Miss Christmas premiere
…children’s books. Produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media company, in association with Handmade Films, “Eloise” features the star-studded voice over talent of two-time Oscar©-nominee Lynn Redgrave (Georgy Girl, Gods… |
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The return of Wallace and Gromit
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Nick Park’s Oscar-winning claymation duo Wallace and Gromit are headed back for more adventures, though this time returning to the small screen where they… |
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Classic characters to run marathon with Boomerang
…United Artists. Boomerang will present selections from more than 90 fully re-mastered, classic theatrical shorts produced from 1964-1977, including the Oscar*-winning The Pink Phink – as well as 84 animated… |
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Gnomeo now at Miramax
…Working from a script by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, the Oscar-nominated Baker Bloodworth (Destino, Lorenzo) will serve as Gnomeo and Juliet’s producer and will guide the production in London…. |
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Paul Simon Surprise-es with "Father and Daughter" revisit
It may come as a pleasant surprise to animation fans that Paul Simon’s newest project, Surprise, includes his Oscar-nominated ballad “Father and Daughter,” as heard in The Wild Thornberrys Movie…. |
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Tarzan's Broadway debut review
…for this production, doesn’t exactly leap off the stage. Sure, it includes some terrific songs, including Two Worlds and the Oscar-winning You’ll Be in My Heart. But it rarely displays… |
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Enchanted actress courts Underdog
Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams has enlisted in the cast of Disney/Spyglass’ Underdog, taking on the leading female role. The news comes courtesy of Variety, via Coming Soon. Underdog will fly… |
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Mary Poppins AMPAS screening
…at 7:30 p.m. The film is being recognized by the Academy for its multiple Oscar nominations including Best Picture. View the Academy’s official page for this event for more information…. |